Design Archives - The Skylark

Kevin McCloud: Consumption doesn’t make you happy

The Grand Designs presenter on authenticity, the value of making and the lessons he learned on a Tuscan farm about what it means to

August 27, 2025

The playwright on bringing My Neighbour Totoro to the stage and what he thinks children, adults and theatre are missing if art loses its human

August 18, 2025

The UK artist on why “progress” isn’t always progress, why art shouldn’t pretend to have all the answers, and why we need to stop

April 25, 2025

The artist on why he ended up drawing 60 of London’s great trees, what the process taught him, and how people react when nature

March 5, 2025